Appeal 2007-1340
Application 09/996,125
nor have Appellants presented evidence that this "represented an unobvious
step over the prior art" id.
Therefore, the claimed subject matter would have been obvious to a
person having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made.
B.
As an alternative, we conclude that allowing a user to digitally point
to selected designated portions of a cached document and loading only those
designated portions of the cached document would have been obvious
because it is an application of the known technique of giving control to the
user, disclosed in Acharya, to the known system of a Web browser,
disclosed in Gong, ready for improvement to yield predictable results. "[I]f
a technique has been used to improve one device, and a person of ordinary
skill in the art would recognize that it would improve similar devices in the
same way, using the technique is obvious unless its actual application is
beyond his or her skill." KSR, 127 S. Ct. at 1740, 82 USPQ2d at 1396.
The prior art system of Gong teaches a Web browser with a status
indicator that informs the user that a displayed Web page is new, partially
old, or old. (FF 12.) The Web browser of Gong selects and retrieves a
portion of the Web page from cache under computer program (browser)
control. (FF 13.) A user may select a reload button on the Web browser to
reload the displayed Web page. (FF 14-15.)
The prior art also teaches the known technique of giving the user
control over selection of a portion of a Web page. (FF 6-9.) A person of
ordinary skill in the art would have recognized that applying the known
technique of giving the user control over the selection of a portion of a Web
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